Analytics & Metrics Articles & Videos

  • UX Benchmarking vs. UX Success Metrics

    UX benchmarking allows us to track the long-term changes in the overall user experience of our product, while UX success metrics help us assess the short-term impact of a specific project or feature launch.

  • Likert Scales 101

    Likert scales measure user opinions by asking participants to rate statements. They capture nuanced feedback but can face biases. To improve accuracy, use clear questions and techniques to reduce bias.

  • Measures of Central Tendency 101

    Discover how mean, median, and mode can impact your UX insights. Learn 3 key tips to consider when deciding which one to use for your data.

  • Unlock Powerful UX Insights with Custom Events in Analytics

    Discover how custom events in analytics can transform your UX strategy by providing detailed insights into critical user behaviors, allowing for better-informed design decisions.

  • UX Goals vs. OKRs vs. KPIs

    Learn what UX Goals, OKRs, and KPIs are and how to use them as a framework to measure the success and progress of UX work.

  • How to Conduct a Competitive Usability Evaluation

    Competitive usability evaluations help you understand how your competitors solve certain design problems and how you might outperform them. These evaluations are often performed at the beginning of design projects to shift their direction toward areas of opportunity.

  • Practical vs. Statistical Significance

    Statistical significance does not always equal practical significance. A difference may be statistically significant without having any meaningful impact in real life. Conversely, practical differences may not always achieve statistical significance.

  • How to Measure Intranet Performance: 3 Key Success Metrics

    Measure your intranet's effectiveness with strategic metrics for usage patterns, employee engagement, and satisfaction ratings. Improve your organization through insightful intranet analysis.

  • CASTLE: Measure UX in Workplace Software

    Discover the CASTLE framework for measuring UX in workplace software, an alternative to Google's HEART model.

  • Success Rate vs. Completion Rate

    Measure completion rate when users follow a linear process with a fixed number of steps; use success rate when there are multiple ways to accomplish a task.

  • How to Present UX Research Results Responsibly

    Presenting study data to stakeholders is a crucial step of most projects. Make sure to present your data truthfully and responsibly to avoid costly negative outcomes and reputation loss. Indicate who your data represents and communicate the limitations of your findings.

  • Measurement Error in UX Research

    Measurement error is the error we introduce when we measure or observe something about our users. It can come from different sources, such as the number of participants, individual variation between participants, testing environment, or other outside factors. This video helps understand and communicate such measurement errors.

  • Product-Led Growth & UX

    The product-led growth model enables users to try a product or service before paying. This video offers three tips for UX professionals to support a product-led user experience: Connect changes to metrics, interview/survey users, and compare behavior and feedback.

  • Common Errors in Quantitative Research

    False positives and negatives are common errors in quantitative studies that can lead to harmful business decisions. To avoid these mistakes recruit large enough sample sizes, representative participants, and control for confounding variables.

  • Personas vs. Analytics Segments

    Avoid creating personas from analytics data alone. Personas are artifacts that aim to capture users' attitudes, goals, and pain points, aspects which analytics alone can't provide.

  • Selection Bias in UX Research

    Every research study has bias, but you can curate and prioritize certain biases to address the questions that are important to you.

  • Independent and Dependent Variables: Increase Impact with Small Changes

    Learn how to structure your research with independent and dependent variables to increase the clarity and impact of your work.

  • Engagement Metrics in UX

    Engagement is an abstract, complex concept used to understand how much people interact with our products. Choosing the right engagement metrics goes beyond time spent.

  • How to Use Analytics in UX

    Integrating analytics into UX work helps make data-based decisions and focuses effort on projects with the most impact.

  • Campbell's Law: The Dark Side of Success Metrics

    When organizations optimize metrics at the cost of all else, they expose themselves to metric corruption, which can have disastrous consequences.